A physician's counsels to his professional brethren / by a practising physician.

Ezra Mundy Hunt

Date:: [1859]

Credit: A physician's counsels to his professional brethren / by a practising physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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PREFACE. This little treatise has been prepared by its au- thor, with the humble desire of drawing the atten- tion of medical men to their religious privileges and responsibilities on the one hand, and the tempta- tions which assail them on the other. No one can trace our profession, in the retrospect of past ages, without feeling its barrenness of a general, vital, moral power. As a body we have too often seen it incredulous and sceptical; and even in a time of enlightenment we find Sir Thomas Browne, in his Religio Medici, writing as if it were almost necessary for a physician to apologize for having any orthodox views. Such a state of things has in part passed away, and the genial warmth of

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